Court Reduces Gottfrid Svartholm Warg’s Sentence by One Year STOCKHOLM—One of the masterminds behind the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay Wednesday had his prison sentence reduced after a Swedish appellate court said one of the charges lacked sufficient evidence for … Continue reading
Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company’s growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM’s distinctive management style … Continue reading
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems. Founded in 1970 as a division of Xerox … Continue reading
William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with … Continue reading
Early Life Ballmer was born in Detroit, the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry Ballmer, a manager at the Ford Motor Company. His father was a Swiss immigrant and his American mother was Jewish. He grew up in the … Continue reading
Mark Abene (born 1972), better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the hacker groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. Phiber Optik was … Continue reading
Born Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California, U.S. Died October 5, 2011 (aged 56) Palo Alto, California, U.S. Cause of Death Metastatic Insulinoma Nationality American Alma mater Reed College (dropped out) Occupation Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc. Co-founder and CEO, Pixar … Continue reading
Byte magazine was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the MS-DOS (PC) platform or the Mac, mostly from … Continue reading
